EPTHow do you listen to music? - Page 2
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DragoonPK
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SwEEt[TearS]
Canada1575 Posts
I however suck hard @ composing or even understanding chords, lol. edit: I put a lot of emphasis on lyrics usually, I feel they give the song an entity or something. I feel a song w/o lyrics sounds way different compared to if it had lyrics + Show Spoiler [deadmau5 - Ghosts n Stuff] + | ||
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koreasilver
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On November 03 2009 23:03 writer22816 wrote: Uh, maybe because this could be common knowledge to him? Seriously, he wasn't even saying stuff like "lol modern music sux its 4 simpletons who don't know shit about music" and you have to call him out? Jesus, don't blame others for your ignorance. You really think he wasn't being ostentatious (great word for it, Chromyne) and showy? I think there's something wrong with your understanding of English, then. | ||
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Chromyne
Canada561 Posts
Lyrics are important to me. If I don't like the lyrics then I probably won't listen to the song. If the lyrics are bearable and the music itself is good, then I can take it. Other things I look for: - Quality of vocals. I am by no means trained to critique vocals, but I am still very picky! No support/pitch issues please. - Chord progressions and melody lines. I love hearing progressions and musical ideas that I have never heard before. It is very refreshing! (Since I'm a newbie to jazz, it's not that hard to find.) - The little details. Hearing fingers hit the piano keys, the guitar strings buzzing, or someone moving in their chair makes the experience more life-like. Also, repeated listenings that reveal more stuff you didn't heard before such as those soft timpani parts or counter-melodies that are harder to hear. In short, music is awesome, and it's great to listen to the same song again and hear new things! | ||
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Epicfailguy
Norway893 Posts
I dont really know much about music other than what I like to listen to. I listen to hip hop, metal, rock and about everything I think sounds good. Im an instrumental guy, I rarely listen a lot to the lyrics unless its something really good. Eminem is actually one of the few rappers' lyrics I listen too, but Im mostly into the hip hop genere couse of all the cool beats, Stoup makes a lot of good beats, so do the wu tang clan. I think weed really enhances the musical experience, I havent smoked in 6 months now but I remember how great it made music  | ||
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Spinfusor
Australia410 Posts
On November 03 2009 22:47 PH wrote: I'm really curious...why did you feel it necessary to link a grip of random musical theory terms into a relatively simple topic? Does it really make you feel that much better? You could have easily made the same point with much less effort and much more modesty/decency, but for whatever reason you absolutely had to take a shockingly elitist route about it. Your point is valid, but I can't get over the fact that you had to make it in such a dumb way, I'm sorry. You're being ridiculously oversensitive. I used those terms to enforce what I thought was comical exaggeration. I would have thought the "it doesn't matter if" was more than sufficient to indicate it wasn't neccesary to read each article except as a matter of curiosity. I'm curious, does using both "ostentatious" and "showy" make you immodest, indecent or a shocking English elitist? On November 03 2009 22:13 JohnColtrane wrote: aleatoric music sounds very interesting spinfusor, could you recommend any musicians? The main composers that come to mind would probably be John Cage, Witold Lutoslawski, Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lutoslawski's 'Venetian Games', Cage's 'Concert for Piano and Orchestra' and 'Music of Changes' (all can be found on youtube) were my first experiences, but they're also quite exotic in other ways that might put you off. If you're more lax with the definition, Mozart's dice game composition is a fun thing to play around with. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On November 04 2009 07:57 Spinfusor wrote: You're being ridiculously oversensitive. I used those terms to enforce what I thought was comical exaggeration. I would have thought the "it doesn't matter if" was more than sufficient to indicate it wasn't neccesary to read each article except as a matter of curiosity. I'm curious, does using both "ostentatious" and "showy" make you immodest, indecent or a shocking English elitist? If you were trying to be funny, it didn't work out. No one's laughing. Saying "using both 'ostentatious and 'showy'" makes you bad at English. Being ostentatious and showy makes you immodest. Being a musical elitist makes you indecent and immodest. You're not an English elitist. You apparently don't have a strong enough grasp of the language to pass that off. | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
another music shitfight | ||
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Dark.Carnival
United States5095 Posts
when i was younger i didn't listen too much music, and usually ignored the lyrics/vocals. than i went completely the other way after listening too a lot of music, and became obsessive over the lyrics. at one point i had a huge folder of lyrics, every band that had lyrics, i put into it. broke down by band, with their albums. | ||
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TheAntZ
Israel6248 Posts
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
On November 04 2009 10:40 Lemonwalrus wrote: I pick apart the drums like it's my job. must be a very boring job :C | ||
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Spinfusor
Australia410 Posts
On November 04 2009 09:10 PH wrote: If you were trying to be funny, it didn't work out. No one's laughing. Saying "using both 'ostentatious and 'showy'" makes you bad at English. Being ostentatious and showy makes you immodest. Being a musical elitist makes you indecent and immodest. You're not an English elitist. You apparently don't have a strong enough grasp of the language to pass that off. This is really just a farce. If you want to screw up your own blog, fine I'll address this post if you insist on continuing to make specious attacks on me. | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
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PanN
United States2828 Posts
On November 03 2009 22:11 EchOne wrote: Aesop Rock is well known in underground hip hip; I'm sure PH and others will discover him if they undertake the journey. Hip hop was one of the first genres I began listening to as a child along with classical, new age, and metal. Coming from a piano background, I found vocals in most music to be absolutely fascinating as they were new and mysterious to me. I have paid close attention to any and all lyrics ever since. Lyrics will make or break a song for me. However I admit I don't analyze the technical aspects of most music. I only know one person in real life who analyzes... everything. He is a music major and a true audiophile. Aesop Rock is too good, I've been listening to his stuff for so long I actually remember a lot of the songs. And this is hard to do with aesop. | ||
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Lemonwalrus
United States5465 Posts
No it isn't...leave me alone.  | ||
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Spinfusor
Australia410 Posts
On November 04 2009 11:42 JohnColtrane wrote: spinfusor, PH just thinks you went a bit over the top in listing all those different styles of composition. He thought you could have said it without so many examples and just the main point. Certainly I can accept that point. I don't care to be wildly accused of elitism, indecency etc however. Though I'll explain why used all those terms: Serial = difficult melodically and harmonically Polyrhythmic = difficult and complex rhythmically Aleatoric = difficult to comprehend in formal terms Klangfarbenmelodie style = diverse with respect to tone color Fugue = complicated texturally Thus covering all the aspects of absolute music. | ||
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JohnColtrane
Australia4813 Posts
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